Who is ashwani kumar

He brought about systemic changes in the department to instill professionalism and serve the common people in a better manner. He is credited with the introduction of 'community policing' at the grass root level. Realizing the importance of IT and computerization, he introduced computers at the police station level in Himachal Police as well as the lodging of public complaints online. He served as director CBI for more than two years and retired in November He was sworn-in as the governor of Nagaland on March 21, and as governor of Manipur on July 29, As Ashwani Kumar has served in the police department of Himachal for 37 years he had massive fan following and majority used to see him as in inspiration.

Power minister Sukhram Chaudhary said that Ashwani Kumar belonged to his Paonta Sahib assembly constituency and he was an honest and dedicated officer. He was simple, hard working sincere but very hard task master. Facebook Twitter Linkedin EMail. The officer who did not wish to be named said Kumar was an extremely professional police officer who went out of the way to back young officers if he was convinced about their talent. I was on deputation to the Centre but my cooling-off period was still not over.

He was convinced that I would make a difference to the cases the CBI was probing and ensured I was brought on board at the CBI at the earliest possible," said the officer.

Believed to be an officer close to the Gandhi family, Kumar pipped the then special director ML Sharma, who was from the batch and was believed to be the front-runner for the post.

Sharma subsequently resigned after high drama that saw no clarity for a few hours about the then DCBI Vijay Kumar's successor. This team indicted the Talwars, a finding upheld by the trial court but rejected by the higher courts. He was Governor of Nagaland between and and also briefly held the charge of Governor of Manipur.

On Wednesday when his son and daughter-in-law were going for a walk, they found all the doors of the attic locked. Ashwani Kumar was the Himachal Pradesh police chief from till when he returned to the Central Bureau of Investigation to lead the investigation agency. Kumar led the central investigation agency from August to November It was during his tenure as the CBI chief that the investigation agency arrested Union home minister Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.

The 22 accused who faced trial in this case were acquitted in December He had expressed his displeasure over the probe into the case and had taken upon himself to take it to a logical conclusion. In , the Manmohan Singh government appointed him as the governor of Nagaland and Manipur governor.

Kumar stepped down from the post after the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power after the general elections. Share Via.